Physical Evaluation Of The Hydrodynamic Stability Of An Eco-engineered Armouring Unit

ECOncrete®‘s Coastalock is an ecologically designed armour unit, providing an alternative and/or a complement to traditional armour layers with ecologically enhanced armouring that provides shoreline stabilization, while also creating well-defined local ecosystems that mimic natural rock pools. The 2D physical model tests performed at TU Delft...

Scheidslijnen in het denken over natuurbeheer in Nederland: Een genealogie van vier ecologische theorien

In 1972, a number of Dutch landscape ecologists united in the Netherlands Society for Landscape Ecology (in Dutch: Werkgemeenschap Landschapsecologisch Onderzoek, WLO). They formed a theory discussion group, aimed at finding a scientific foundation for nature conservation. Scientific here meaning: to be able to predict the future, on the basis...

Performative Microforests: Investigating the potential benefits of integrating spatial vegetation environments into buildings, in regards to the performance of buildings, their occupants + local ecosystems

The design of office buildings can substantially improve the building, social, and ecological performance of office building projects. However, existing research on improving the performance of work environments has primarily focused on identifying and evaluating methods to make work environments less bad, rather than focusing on how to develop...

Growing dwellings: The explorative design of a dwelling supporting biodiversity

This research has two main purposes: (1) to show the quality of dominant nature, above man and (2) to demonstrate the investigation of biodiversity in a city environment both by designing a prototype of a dwelling. The city environment, in this case, is Amsterdam; the dwelling is designed in the Jordaan. The location is chosen because this...

Refresh: Cultivating a new paradigm of integrated farming as mitigation of air pollution in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Air pollution poses a significant threat to human health globally, with Southeast Asia being one of the most affected regions. Chiang Mai, as the largest cultivated area in northern Thailand, faces severe haze pollution due to traditional farming practices, especially during the burning season. As urban areas encroach upon agricultural land and...

Impact of land use on functional plant diversity: A new assessment method demonstrated in Germany

Assessing the human impacts on biodiversity is important for conserving biodiversity. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool to assess the impact product service systems have on the environment. To critically asses the human impact of land use on biodiversity in LCA, characterisation factors (CF) are needed to translate area and type of land use...

Ecological road design: A study on the effects of roads on ecosystem services in Leiden

In recent decades, the world’s population has increased exponentially and is expected to increase even more in the coming years. More and more people are moving to the city. In the Netherlands, too, we are dealing with population growth in the Randstad, and therefore also in Leiden. This increase puts extra pressure on the already extensive road...

Designing for Coexistence: Or how to overcome the speciesistic bias in spatial design

Due to increasing human land use, the world’s biodiversity is declining. These losses of biodiversity in many places create problems for the resilience of the ecosystems in which we live. How we design our spaces has an impact on all the species that live in them. In order to protect and improve the biodiversity, spatial designers should change...

Not just a corridor: Ecological landscape design for the Panke River in Berlin to improve both the natural ecosystem and environmental justice

In urban areas, river courses have often been modified to a large extent to meet human needs. This modification has led to a decrease in ecological quality and biodiversity at both local and regional scales. Berlin is an example of a city with substantially modified rivers and decreased biodiversity. Rivers have been modified the most in dense...

ECO- LANDSCAPE: De Knip as a Biodiversity Instrument

The Second life studio focuses on the value of existing building stocks in our built environment. Five office buildings with low monumental value that lost their relevance in time are chosen as case studies, the primary interest of the studio is to explore possibilities of such building stock and to extend building life by external and internal...

Ruins and Regeneration

The loss of global biodiversity poses a significant threat to ecosystems and human well-being. The growth of cities has played a substantial role in the 70% decline in global biodiversity since 1970. This decline can be attributed to the failure of cities to balance their rapid land take with the preservation or creation of urban vegetation. The...

Gebieden met bijzondere ecologische waarden op het Nederlands Continentaal Plat / Areas with special ecological values on the Dutch Continental Shelf

THERE IS BOTH A DUTCH AND AN ENGLISH VERSION OF THIS REPORT AVAILABLE. SEE RIKZ2005008ENGLISH.PDF FOR THE ENGLISH VERSION. Samenvatting In de Nota Ruimte is aangegeven dat een nadere begrenzing van de gebieden met bijzondere ecologische waarden zal plaatsvinden in het Integraal Beheerplan Noordzee 2015 (IBN 2015). Dit rapport geeft daartoe...

Duurzaamheid, biodiversiteit en veerkracht: Verkenning rond toxische stoffen in rivier-ecosystemen

Conceptueel kader voor natuurdoelstellingen in het rivierbeheer: Eindrapport